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My name is Polytimi Mitsakou. I study in the English
Department of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and I am
currently at my fourth and last year of my bachelor. I cherish a love
for the English language and a deeper one for literature. During the
spring semester of 2012 I went on an Erasmus in Finland where I fell in
love with the beauties of the land, but also while being there I
understood, why my country and especially the city in which I live, has
a very profound meaning and influence on me (the realization arising
when being far away from it and grasping the intertwined relationship
that exists between a city and its individuals). I’ve been writing in a
student magazine for the last 3 years and I enjoy it very much since I
can feel a different rhythm of the city than the ones we are used to in
our everyday lives. Creativity and imagination, team spirit and
cooperation, socializing with sharp minds of the new generations are
things that redeem us and broaden our horizons day by day and offer us a
fresher insight to the city’s heart. That’s why I find this project (Urban
Environments in Transition) perfectly connected with any creative or
artistic act that takes place within urban environments from the
restless spirits of our era. I love the urban contradictory images of
filth and cleanness, of passions and sloth, abundance and lack, light
and darkness, experiences that trigger an explosion of emotions either
positive or negative, all cases being warmly welcome. Urban Environments
in Transition is eventually a process that never stops… |
